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Jul 12, 2009
Finally, a virtual reality system you walk around in like some kind of giant man-hamster.
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Electric Independence: Xeno and Oakla...
Meet Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBridge. Together they make up the minimal synth ...
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Jan 26, 2010
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Dr. Nakamats: Patently Strange
It should come as little surprise that Japan, home to the world's most advanc...
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Mar 9, 2010
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Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman can't stop making games. An accomplished game designer, artist...
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Mar 2, 2010
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Electric Independence: Gavin Russom
Gavin Russom is a wizard, and not just because his long red flowing mane is r...
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Feb 24, 2010
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The Madagascar Institute
What you need to know about the Madagascar Institute, first of all, is that i...
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Feb 16, 2010
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2010 Medals: Turning Circuit Boards I...
Motherboard heads to Vancouver to interview the designers of the 2010 Olympic...
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Feb 9, 2010
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THE GAMING HOUR - Assassins Creed 2 /...
"The Gaming Hour” is a video-game review show hosted by Vice games colu...
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Jan 20, 2010
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NYC Resistor: Making Awesome Things H...
NYC Resistor is a Brooklyn based group of "hackers for good" who take apart a...
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Jan 12, 2010
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Something Wrong is Nothing Wrong
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of Jodi.org create chaos, instill fear, and ...
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Jan 5, 2010
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Stelarc: The Man with Three Ears
Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. ...
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Jun 13, 2009
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Richard Garriott
Richard shows us the grounds of Britannia Manor, an elaborate house combining...
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Feb 23, 2009
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Colombian Narcosubs
Colombian drug traffickers up the ante with homemade coke-smuggling submarines.
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May 4, 2009
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Dr. White's Total Body Transplant 1 of 2
Talkin' bout advanced neurology at the Geneva, Ohio Mickey D's.
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Apr 6, 2009
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Electric Independence: XXXChange
In this episode of Electric Independence, we head out to Fort Greene, Brookly...
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Dec 21, 2009
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Fuel: A Documentary About Fuel
Eddy Moretti goes to the home of Josh Tickell and his fiancé Rebecca Har...
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Dec 21, 2009
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Carlos and his Heavy Metal Toys
Wasilla, “real America” Alaska is more than just Sarah Palin's st...
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Dec 16, 2009
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Cory Arcangel
This week on Motherboard Cory Arcangel invites us into his Brooklyn studio to...
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Dec 1, 2009
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Ralph Baer and his All-Purpose Boxes
In this episode, we travel to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He t...
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Nov 20, 2009
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Electric Independence: RJD2
Electric Independence visits Philadelphia DJsician Ramble John "RJ" Krohn, be...
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Nov 13, 2009
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Behind the Wild Things
Director Spike Jonze reveals the secrets behind bringing his giant monsters t...
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Nov 9, 2009
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Monrovian Analog Blogger
Internet-starved Monrovians turn to this guy's dry-erase board for all their ...
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Oct 30, 2009
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Electric Independence: Moby
Motherboard host Jordan Redaelli hangs out with Moby while he shows him all o...
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Oct 24, 2009
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The Survival of Mark Pauline
Mark Pauline is the founder of Survival Research Laboratories, a mythical mon...
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Oct 17, 2009
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PAX Gaming Expo 2009
The PAX video-game festival is, nerd for nerd, the nerdiest annual assemblage...
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Oct 10, 2009
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The Thankless Search for Intelligence...
Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared “the most cle...
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Oct 5, 2009
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Electric Independence - JD Samson
Most people who know JD Samson know her as the awesome, pubestachio'd beat-ma...
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Sep 18, 2009
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Cai Guo-Qiang and the Art of Fire Med...
We meet Cai Guo-Qiang, the Chinese artist who paints with exploding gunpowder.
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Sep 14, 2009
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Electric Independence: Holy Ghost!
Motherboard takes a stroll down the block to Holy Ghost!'s home studio where ...
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Sep 4, 2009
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ITP Winter Show
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), the first graduate school...
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Aug 28, 2009
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Black Holes and Big Bangs
VBS explores CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, to ...
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Aug 21, 2009
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The Stylophone
In the late 60s, a British man with funny hair invented a cheap, handheld syn...
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Aug 12, 2009
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THE GAMING HOUR - Bionic Commando/X-M...
Vice’s resident video game expert Stephen Lea Sheppard invites us into ...
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Aug 7, 2009
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Television Meltdown by Soso Limited
Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric G...
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Jul 30, 2009
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The Electronic Persecution of Jesus M...
Jesus Mendoza is a Texan plagued with electro-sensitivity. Basically the cond...
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Jul 24, 2009
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Robotic Hackers
A hovel of MIT grads embark on a Red Bull and cigarette-fueled robotics bender.
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Jul 17, 2009
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The Virtusphere
Finally, a virtual reality system you walk around in like some kind of giant ...
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Jul 12, 2009
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Mini Sumo Robots
Mexicans conquer the last bastion of US/Japanese superiority: competitive rob...
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Jul 2, 2009
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The Atomic Trucker
John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke.
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Jun 27, 2009
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The Electrophobes
Being allergic to electricity isn't a death sentence, but it is a lifetime-of...
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Jun 18, 2009
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Damanhur: Selfic Laboratory for the F...
The vast underground temples and secret chambers of Damanhur.
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Jun 6, 2009
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Damanhur: Selfic Laboratory for the F...
The amazing powers of copper wire and Selfic technology.
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Jun 6, 2009
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Damanhur: Selfic Laboratory for the F...
Damnhur's tree house villagers refuse to hurt a tree, but manage to keep mode...
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Jun 6, 2009
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Alexei Shulgin and the Art of No Brain
The warped, cyberdelic art-gadgsets of Moscow's Electroboutique.
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May 27, 2009
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Ralph Lundsten's Andromeda Galaxy
Ralph Lundsten's recording studio is its own country.
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May 25, 2009
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Oscar Niemeyer 101
The man who created Brazil's crazy space-age moon-capital. ...
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May 18, 2009
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Curtis Roads
Bringing music down to the microsound level.
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May 11, 2009
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Twin Galaxies and the Golden Domes
Serving as referee and scorekeeper to the world's gamers is only a sideline t...
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Apr 27, 2009
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Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
Tatsuya Matsui wants to make his robotic children part of your everday life.
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Apr 20, 2009
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The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil
Despite being perceived as an extreme optimist, Kurzweil is the first to admi...
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Apr 13, 2009
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Dr. White's Total Body Transplant 2 of 2
Checking in on the morality of brain transplants with the pope.
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Apr 6, 2009
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Backyard Rocketeer
Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the b...
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Mar 23, 2009
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THE GAMING HOUR - Call of Duty/The La...
Stephen Lea Sheppard is our resident expert on RPGs, VRPGS, JRPGs, MMORPGs, F...
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Mar 30, 2009
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Psychedelic Photomicrography and the ...
Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny tiny living and non-living cells th...
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Mar 9, 2009
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I, Professor Sankai
While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more "sophisticated" side...
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Mar 16, 2009
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The Body Farm
This hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation's oldest ...
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Mar 2, 2009
